Marines assaulted an outpost of Abu Sayyaf near Parang on Jolo island, killing four terrorists and forcing them deeper into the jungle. The military has shifted tactics against Abu Sayyaf, focusing on a campaign of attrition to aggressively reduce their fighting capacity.
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Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda commander in Afghanistan, said the terror group would use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons against the US. “God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them against the Americans,” he said. He also said al Qaeda expected the […]
Iranian state media reported that 13 have been killed and 20 wounded in the protests taking place over the weekend. Rafsanjani’s daughter and three other relatives were arrested. Mousavi continued to demand a nullification of the election results. President Obama urged Iran “to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people.”
Abdullayev, the son of Chechen rebel leader Supyan Abdullayev, has disappeared after being deported from Egypt and arriving in Moscow. Egypt deported four other Chechens who were among the many arrested between May 26-27. Two insurgents were killed in a shootout in Dagestan. In Kabardino-Balkaria, four insurgents were killed in a shootout.
Afghan firefight shows challenge for US troops
Hizbul Islam leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys vowed to fight any foreign troops in Somalia while Shabaab’s administration in Kismayo warned Kenya not to interfere. Ethiopia rejected Somalia’s request for troops but is reported to be moving forces to the border areas.
Insurgents killed three policemen and wounded four more in separate attacks in Baghdad and Ninewa, and killed a civilian in an IED attack in Mosul. Security forces detained 13 wanted men in Dhi Qhar, 10 in Babil, and seven more in Basrah, and captured seven al Qaeda fighters in Anbar.
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Two US soldiers were killed and six more were wounded during a rocket attack on the Bagram Air Base. The Taliban killed two policemen during an IED attack in Wardak province, three civilians during an ambush on a military convoy in Kunar province, and an imam in Nangarhar province who delivered funeral prayers to government […]
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Siraj Haqqani, Abu Yahya al Libi, Abdul Haq, and two senior Taliban commanders met with the Pakistani Taliban chief to advise him to redirect his activities toward Afghanistan. The meeting took place the same week the US and Pakistani military launched airstrikes in South Waziristan and wounded a senior terrorist leader.
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The military said more than 30 Taliban fighters were killed in South Waziristan. The Taliban killed a Peshawar policeman. Security forces detained 17 suspected terrorists in Punjab and a bomber in Lahore. Sufi Mohammed is reportedly in custody. The government is negotiating with the pro-Taliban tribes in Jani Khel.
Al Qaeda and the Taliban have succeeded in maintaining their coffers through a host of methods, including kidnappings, extortion, taxing drug routes, illegal money transfers from Western countries through hawalas, and falsely inflating prices of products, such as honey from Yemen. Islamic charities are still funneling money to the terror groups.
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The government declared a state of emergency while the speaker of parliament requested that Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Yemen, and other countries send troops to Somalia as soon as possible. A member of parliament was killed during heavy fighting in Mogadishu.
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Sixty-seven Iraqis were killed and more than 200 were wounded in a massive suicide bombing in front of a Shia mosque in Kirkuk. Three Awakening fighters were killed in a suicide attack that targeted the group’s leader in Karmah. Iraqi troops killed a Special Groups leader in Basrah.
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A Saudi member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula surrendered to Yemeni authorities. Naif Duhais Yahya al Harbi has provided “important information that will lead to the arrest of a number of dangerous members of the organisation,” according to the interior ministry.
More than 30 of Baitullah Mehsud’s Taliban fighters are reported to have been killed in ground and air attacks.
Sixteen Taliban fighters and one policeman was killed during fighting in Uruzgan province. The Taliban killed six civilians in a bombing in Herat and two ISAF soldiers in attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan. Polish and Afghan troops captured 29 Taliban fighters during an operation in southeast Afghanistan. One Haqqani Network fighter was detained in […]